engineering design day 2012 - College of Engineering @ The ...

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AWARDS
Engineering Design Day 2012
RAYThEoN BEST ENGINEERING ANALYSIS AWARD ($750)
This award recognizes the team with the strongest strategy, implementation and documentation of analyses supporting their
design. Analyses vary from project to project, but may include market research and analysis, analysis of prior solutions to
the design problem posed, trade studies that justify the final design that was selected from among alternatives considered,
system modeling to demonstrate that the final design is sound and should perform as desired, analysis of potential reasons
for failure and a mitigation plan, and economic or other analysis of the benefits of the final design in its intended application.
Criteria for judging will include the completeness of the project analysis based on the above categories, thoroughness of the
analyses, application of sound engineering principles and practice, a demonstrated understanding by team members of any
tools or models used, reasonableness of all assumptions, and the quality of the documentation of the analyses.
RINCoN RESEARCh BEST pRESENTATIoN AWARD ($750)
This award reflects the quality of the overall verbal and poster presentations. Verbal presentations should be well structured to
describe efficiently the overall problem being solved and the specifics of how the team accomplished their design. Answers to
questions should be direct and demonstrate mastery of the project. Presenters should speak in a clear and easily audible voice,
making good eye contact with the judging pod. The poster board should be visually interesting, and graphically well organized to
tell a stand-alone story of the project to outsiders.
TEChNICAL DoCumENTATIoN CoNSuLTANTS oF ARIZoNA BEST DESIGN DoCumENTATIoN AWARD ($750)
Successful implementation of any innovative design requires that all members of the design and production team communicate effectively.
Design intent must be communicated from the design activity to the rest of the team using design documentation with a clear map for
others to reproduce the design based on documentation only. The mechanical portion of the design will be evaluated on the use of drawings
with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, solids models, illustrations, presentations, etc. that can be used to manufacture and inspect
design hardware. Software and other systems will be evaluated on the use of documentation that clearly and fully describes the system.